The Department of Theatre Arts is housed in the Price Theater. Built in 1975, Price Theater consists of a 280-seat proscenium theatre with 36 fly lines, 8 electrics (including 4 beam positions over the auditorium) and a hydraulic orchestra pit.  Stage lighting is controlled by an ETC Express 125 - 125 Channel Control Console.  We have a new Mackie 24-4  24 input mixer, eight 15x1 JBL speakers plus one 255s Sub box with 2 15" speakers all powered by QSC RMX series power amps.   We also have JBL monitors, Clearcom communications, two Denon 610 production CD players, a SONY MDLP minidisc deck, and ten wireless lav mics plus two wireless handheld mics.

Our Black Box theater is versatile enough to serve as a traditional classroom, a performance space, a dance/movement studio and a lighting laboratory.   We have fully-equipped on-site scenery and costume shops.  Both spaces allow opportunity for work-study students to gain practical experience with both faculty and guest artists.  The Theatre Arts Department also owns an impressive collection of high quality stage weapons handcrafted by Lewis Shaw of Vulcan's Forge, in Baltimore, Maryland, American Fencer's, and Santelli.  These weapons are used in our "Stunts/Fights for Stage, Television & Film" classes, as well as in departmental productions.  They include single handed, hand-and-a-half, and two-handed broadswords; rattan and bamboo quarterstaffs; rapiers and daggers; bucklers; and specially constructed (in-house) handmade broadswords.  Most recently, we have acquired a collection of neutral masks and more than 30 custom-made period Greek masks designed by Zann and Craig Jacobrown of The Maskery in Indianola, Washington.  These masks were created specifically for our 2005 spring production of Lysistrata.